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polluxlm
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Re: GITMO Propaganda Team Busted

polluxlm wrote:

US military personnel at Guantanamo Bay called Fidel Castro a transsexual and defended the prison for terrorism suspects in anonymous web postings, an internet group that publishes government documents say.

The group, Wikileaks, tracked web activity by service members with Guantanamo email addresses and also found they deleted prisoner identification numbers from three detainee profiles on Wikipedia, the popular online encyclopedia that allows anyone to change articles.

Julian Assange, who led the research effort, said the postings amount to propaganda and deception.

"This is the American government speaking to the American people and to the world through Wikipedia, not identifying itself and often speaking about itself in the third person," Assange said in a telephone interview from Paris.

Army Lt Col Ed Bush, a Guantanamo spokesman, said there is no official attempt to alter information posted elsewhere but said the military seeks to correct what it believes is incorrect or outdated information about the prison.

http://au.news.yahoo.com/071212/2/1590g.html

Really Colonel?

The IP adress responsible for the attacks is: 130.22.190.5.

Using lwebtool you get:

The Host/IP Address you provided resolves to: public.jtfgtmo.southcom.mil

Then go to Domain Tools:

OrgName: UNITED STATES SOUTHERN COMMAND
OrgID: DCEC-1
Address: 3511 NW
Address: 91ST AVE
City: MIAMI
StateProv: FL
PostalCode: 33172
Country: US

It can be readily observed from the timings of a "traceroute" that packets to the machine in question pass through southcom.mil in Maryland and then into a satellite, as is consistent with US military internet provision to Cuba.

OrgName: DoD Network Information Center
OrgID: DNIC
Address: 3990 E. Broad Street
City: Columbus
StateProv: OH
PostalCode: 43218
Country: US

http://wikileaks.org/wiki/Wikileaks_bus … anda_team/

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